I turn business processes into working software.

I start where the work happens, not where the roadmap does.

I work with the people doing the job, map the workflow, document the requirements, and build the tools and integrations that help them get it done. Then I stay through delivery until the team is running it.

Ink sketch portrait of Ade
Ade Amos
Forward deployed engineer
workflow mapped

[ 01 ] · What I keep finding

Four problems that show up in the first week on site.

Different industries, same four. The quotes are from my own build notes on a manufacturer, an agency and my own systems.

01 PAIN 01

Work stalls in the handoff.

“The clarification loop had no clarification in it.”

An order sat thirteen days with no owner and no note. Three systems disagreed about where it was.

02 PAIN 02

The rules live in a spreadsheet.

“The shop floor ran on a spreadsheet that would not open.”

Pricing and fabrication math in a protected workbook and one person’s head. Nothing written down.

03 PAIN 03

Reporting is rebuilt every week.

“A weekly PowerPoint scorecard, assembled by hand, across six service lines.”

Numbers copied from six dashboards into a deck. Proposals retyped from the last one.

04 PAIN 04

Automation fails green.

“The prompt was fine. It never ran.”

Eight days with no API credit while every execution showed success. Nobody noticed because nothing looked broken.

[ 02 ] · Selected work

Discovery to production, inside real businesses.

Client names withheld. Ask me for the numbers.

ManufacturingOn-site · client build

Order-to-floor system

Dealer portal, staff CRM and a fabrication formula engine on one database. An order becomes seven station sheets and travel tickets.

  • On-site discovery with retail and shop-floor teams
  • Every pricing and markup rule documented and encoded
  • MVP live in weeks, not quarters
Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase · Drizzle · React PDF
AgencyClient build

Blog Factory

Research, drafting, images, review and CMS publishing in one system a marketing team runs without an engineer.

  • Multiple content formats, multiple CMS targets
  • Schema and length gates, stall detection, cost logs
  • Publishes unattended on the automatic path
Next.js · Supabase · n8n · Anthropic · Gemini · Webflow · Sanity
AgencyClient build

Performance Scorecard

Client and agency dashboards across six service lines, replacing a weekly PowerPoint assembled by hand.

  • Every ad, analytics and call source in one data model
  • Full client portfolio audited before launch
  • Modeled and measured numbers kept apart
Next.js · Supabase · n8n · GA4 · Google Ads · Meta · CallRail
Medical devicesEmployer · internal tool

RCA Insights

Local-LLM embeddings over engineering postmortems so related failures and their root causes surface together.

  • Years of postmortems indexed, data stays in-house
  • Reusable AI-assisted testing workflows
  • Clinical visualizations localized, RTL included
Next.js · TypeScript · local embeddings · Jira
Developer toolsClient build

GoHighLevel CLI

Command-line access to an agency’s CRM so agents and scripts can inspect and change real workflow data safely.

  • Read-back after every write by default
  • Workflows, calendars, funnels and notifications from the terminal
  • Full call archive checked and reconciled, every case resolved
Node.js · GoHighLevel API
OperationsPersonal · multi-business

EA Assistant

Inbox triage, calendar visibility and meeting actions across several businesses, built to survive its own failures.

  • “No data” and “unavailable” kept distinct everywhere
  • Staged actions queued until writes succeed
  • Nothing lost through a weeks-long auth outage
Claude Code · Gmail · Calendar · ClickUp · Slack · Notion
All work →

18 builds, each with a write-up.

[ 03 ] · Background

Ten years shipping software. The last two inside the business.

Forward deployed engineer for a manufacturer and a marketing agency. Staff Software Engineer at a medical-device company. Frontend-first for most of my career, full-stack now.

Full résumé and how I work →
2025 →Forward Deployed Engineer
A manufacturer and a marketing agency · discovery, process maps, production delivery
2023 →Staff Software Engineer
Medical-device company · clinical software, AI-assisted engineering tools
2018–23Senior Front-End Engineer
Teikametrics, Spin, PlayVS, Butterfli · React, React Native, TypeScript
EarlierConsulting and education
BCG Digital Ventures, Universal Music Group, Shell · B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Houston

[ 04 ] · Elsewhere

I write about what I build and what broke.

The code is on GitHub where it can be. The rest is on the blog and LinkedIn.

Have a problem you want solved? A workflow that needs to get done? Contact me.

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